The nose of NS 8887 finds a pocket of light while splitting the signals at Shepherdstown, WV.

An early morning empty grain train passes through the college town of Shepherdstown.

A cat fish leads a mixed lashup including a CEFX Bluebird and an ex Con SW1500, on a southbound empty hopper train high above the Potomac River and into West Virginia.

Note last unit is a Virginia Railway Express

OCS special crosses the tranquil Potomac River on its morning northward journey from Manassas to Harrisburg.

The engineer throtles up and a cloud of smoke rises as the OCS begins its climb out of the Potomac River Valley at Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Behind the OCS, to the right, is the Rumsey Monumen... (more)

Norfolk Southern 6786 and Norfolk Southern 2638 head south across the Potomac River with a string of coal cars in the last light of the day.

Southbound pig with an OLS painted leader, rolls through the cut by the old station.

One of NS's Operation Lifesaver units rolls through a crossing and past a church in Shepherdstown on a southbond intermodal train.

Spring heat and the use of a long lens with a narrow focusing plane can create an interesting effect. Witness this Conrail Blue EMD leading a string of Top Gons bound for the Pocahontas Coal field... (more)

Hotshot intermodel 203 holds up all of the afternoon commuters trying to get home in Shepherdstown.

The patch on this ex Conrail motor looks like a "Milk Stash".

The newest locomotive is the most faded in this unusual lashup.

The setting sun provides for colorful lighting for the NS OCS pictured crossing from West Virginia into Maryland. The consist lead by NS 4270, NS 4276, NS 4275 and NS 5648 head home to Altoona, P... (more)

Waiting for the NS OCS train at Shepherdstown, 214, which I had shot earlier in the day, showed up for another portrait.